NanoString Technologies is seeking a highly motivated and technology-savvy molecular biologist/biochemist, who will join R&D's New Technology Development group. This position will have a central role on the development of sequencing chemistry used in the Hyb & SeqTM technology, a novel single-molecule hybridization-based next generation sequencing (NGS). She or he will act as, at times, lead scientist and will interact/coordinate with a highly interdisciplinary group of technologists to achieve complex technical goals. Successful candidate must be passionate about wet-lab driven experimentations to find innovative solutions to development hurdles. Candidate must have strong analytical skills, strong oral and written communication skills, and strong track record of independent as well as collaborative research.

NanoString Technologies is a publicly held provider of life science tools for translational research and molecular diagnostics. The company's technology enables a wide variety of basic research, translational medicine and in vitro diagnostics applications.

NanoString's products are based on a novel digital molecular barcoding technology invented at the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) in Seattle under direction of Dr. Leroy Hood. The company was founded in 2003 with an exclusive license to develop and market the technology. In 2008, NanoString launched its first commercial instrument system and began international sales operations with its first multiplexed assays for gene expression analysis. In 2010, the company launched new applications for the system to support microRNA analysis and copy number variation detection, and in 2013 launched Prosigna®, its first in vitro diagnostic product for prognosis of early stage breast cancer.